How did Massachusetts land #5 on the list of best places to retire? It isn’t good based on affordability, but it’s the right state for those who lean left. I suppose Minnesota loses points for winter weather, but perhaps its racial troubles were also a factor.
It’s been a few days, so I’d better say something to prove I’m not in the hospital.
In the 70’s I was into categorizing Girl Music and Boy Music.
You get the idea. Disco was Girl Music. The arrival of Punk and New Wave provided welcome relief! One thing I have to acknowledge about Disco were the many outstanding arrangements and productions. The Supremes couldn’t have sounded any better doing this one.
Here’s an instrumental I thought of as “Green Onions” for the 70’s. It was as much Funk as Disco, which was probably what grabbed me.
And how about these lyrics??
But wait, there’s more! That’s right!
While Beckle thinks up some ideas for the blog, let’s see what’s doing in Doodlebugville.
The summer heat is hitting the west coast hard, with record sustained temperatures, wildfires and drought. But where I am the ground is saturated and there’s street flooding, with more rain to come.
I don’t know if Andrew Sandoval coined the term Sunshine Pop, but this record is one of the most enjoyable examples of the musical genre. The reference to lemon curd in the song got me started buying the delicious stuff!
I’m falling behind on my e-mail replies, because I am once again indulging my fascination with the 2008 meltdown of the financial markets and the Great Recession that resulted from it. Following 9/11, it was the second worldwide crisis of the Internet Age, and it was the first to happen since I began this blog, with the pandemic being of course the second. I’ll probably do more prattling after watching this video.
P.S. I wouldn’t say there’s an untold story in the documentary, but there are couple of tidbits in there I didn’t know. First, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was enduring so much unrelenting stress that he had a probable panic attack after Congress failed to approve a bailout.
After the TARP bailout was approved on a second vote, it was Warren Buffett who suggested to Paulson that the money be given directly to the investment banks, rather than being used to buy their toxic assets. That very unpopular action helped to get the Tea Party started, of course. What makes no sense to me at all was how the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street ended up on opposite sides of the political street.
House price inflation continues, aided by the Fed’s ridiculously low interest rates, and compounded by Baby Boomers like myself who are aging in place at home. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, Millennials!
